Scouting the San Jose Sharks and Los Angeles Kings
Dennis Bernstein: Scouts listed to Wednesday’s Shark-Kings game included the Columbus Blue Jackets, Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lignting, St. Louis Blues, Florida Panthers, and Colorado Avalanche.
The Carolina Hurricanes are listening on center Jesperi Kotkaniemi
Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet: Several sources have said that the Carolina Hurricanes are listening to calls on center Jesperi Kotkaniemi. The Hurricanes are looking for a piece that would help them now, or something they can use to acquire the help they want now.
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The Hurricanes have held talks involving Kotkaniemi with the Los Angeles Kings and Phillip Danault, and included him in the offer to the Vancouver Canucks for Quinn Hughes.
The 25-year-old Kotkaniemi has four years left on his contract at a $4.82 million cap hit. The center market is getting thinner after Alexander Wennberg and Christian Dvorak signed extensions.
The Tampa Bay Lightning will wait before talking contract extension with Darren Raddysh
Benjamin Pierce: Tampa Bay Lightning GM Julien BriseBois on a potential contract extension with defenseman Darren Raddysh:
“I hope his future is in Tampa.” “I don’t know what that dollar sign looks like. I know I want the player to stay here. We love the guy. He bleeds blue. He’s a really good hockey player.”
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Diandra Loux: BriseBois adds on Raddysh that they are going to waiting on an extension.
“I think we’re going to wait, not because it’s going to be a life changing contract, but because you look at his play the first year with us, his play last year, his play at the start of season & his play now. I’m going to need a bigger sample size to know exactly how to value that going forward.”
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